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<div style="text-align:center;"><h1>The Man</h1>
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	I am Kevin Connolly. No, not the famous one; just some guy who makes a living through code. That is to say I write software and 
	websites. I go by many titles, 	but generally prefer to explain myself as one who creates simple solutions to complex problems. <br /><br />

	I continually and intermittently expand my subject matter knowledge of the software world through pet projects. None 
	are so iterative as my blog. My first blog was plaintext. The second was hand-coded HTML. The third was a rudimentary framework I 
	put together in C#. Ever since, I have learned new technologies by writing a new blogging engine. For example, the current 
	implementation of my blog (Version 7 - this website) runs on .NET 4.0 and was coded in Visual Studio 2010.  Why?  Because why 
	not, that's why. I suppose that's why I tend to rewrite bad systems instead of building good stuff on top of bad stuff. <br /><br />

	I started off as a phone lackey doing tech support at regional and national call centers. From there, a friend got me into a Tier
	1 Help Desk gig, where we engineered a situation whereas the CIO "somehow" got wind that I knew how to code ASP.NET and VB.NET. 
	I started doing more and more of that and less and less of the Help Desk work. About the time I was good enough to call myself
	a Developer, I got a new gig doing it full time - And I haven't looked back. <br /><br />

	I work in a world of code. I play in a world of code. I <i>live</i> in a world of code.

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<div style="text-align:center;"><h1>The Machine</h1>
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	This website and occasionally others are hosted from this server. As with most servers, it sits in a server rack.  Unlike other 
	servers and racks, however, this one is in my living room, next to my desk. It spends most of its time idle, but gladly serves up
	requests for my websites, databases, and files (local only, of course). It sports a Q6600 Quad Core, 8GB RAM, and 13 hard drives
	currently totalling 10.15 TB, including a VelociRaptor C: drive. It's out of mounting points. <br /><br />

	My primary workstation, however, is configured a bit differently. It also has a Q6600 Quad Core and a rackmount 4U case and
	8GB RAM, but lacks for storage. Sporting a mere 1TB B: drive for installs and temp/swap/staging, and a paltry 150GB Raptor drive, 
	its main awesomeness is found in its three video cards and six screens. Of those, two are 22" Widescreens in Portrait mode and 
	one is a 26" 1080p HDTV, routed through HDMI. One of the secondary screens runs through a VGA splitter to render output to a 
	projector for movie night (i.e. when I only want to focus on a movie and <i>nothing else</i>, which is rare). <br /><br />

	The server runs a <a href="http://www.kconnolly.net/Post.aspx?Title=Velociraptor+Installed">Free Copy of Windows Server 2008</a>,
	which Microsoft <a href="http://kconnolly.net/Post.aspx?Title=Microsoft%20Accidentally%20Gives%20me%20a%20TechNet%20Subscription">accidentally gave me</a>.



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<div style="text-align:center;"><h1>The Mission</h1></div>
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	To rid my periphery of bad software. To learn as much as I can about the way the world works, and channel that 
	knowledge subsequently into improving the world around me, one small step at a time; and occasionally in large steps.
	I tend to replace people (and occasionally entire departments) with software. Someone once mused on that topic, "Kevin,
	how do you sleep at night?". My answer was characteristically concise: "On a bed made out of <i>money</i>!".

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<div style="text-align:center;"><h1>The Method</h1></div><center>
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	</td><td style="border-left: solid 1px black; text-align:left;"><ul>
		<li><a href="Resume.aspx">Résumé</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://careers.stackoverflow.com/kconnolly">StackOverflow Careers</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-connolly/8/522/2">LinkedIn</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/SlackmasterK/">Channel9</a></li>
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